When comparing Swype vs Minuum Keyboard, the Slant community recommends Swype for most people. In the question“What are the best Android soft keyboards?”Swype is ranked 3rd while Minuum Keyboard is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Swype is:

Swype learns the way you type as you use it. Eventually Swype will create a personal language model based on your methods of typing. This model will even be maintained across all your Android devices.

Pros

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Personal language model

Swype learns the way you type as you use it. Eventually Swype will create a personal language model based on your methods of typing. This model will even be maintained across all your Android devices.

Pro

Swype gestures

Swiping from the question mark, comma, period, or other punctuation to the space key will enter the punctuation and a space at the same time

A swipe from the Swype key in the bottom left corner to "a" will select all, "x" will cut, "c" will copy, and "v" will paste

A swipe from the Swype key to the "5" will open the dedicated number keypad

A swipe from the Swype key to the space key will switch to the last language used

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Gesture typing, tap typing, and suggested words

Swype allows you to easily change between swyping and tap typing depending on the situation.

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Cloud syncing dictionary

Swype saves all of your corrections and improved predictions to the cloud so whenever you switch the experience will remain the same.

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71 Languages and 20 Dialects

Swype features on of the largest collections of languages and dialects out of all of the more popular keyboards for mobile.

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Keyboard themes

Swype allows you to customize the look of your keyboard with themes and color choices.

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Living Languages and Hotwords (opt in)

Swype's dictionary is continually evolving by crowd sourcing the hottest words and phrases from its over 250 million users. With Swype's Living Language you won't have to stop Swyping and type just to use that new phrase.

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Very accurate recognition

Some other keyboards can swype now, but Swype still does it best.

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Uses less than half the vertical space

All three rows are smashed into a single row, with prediction driving the typed words. Uses gestures to complete space, backspace, and return for even more space saving. This design is great for devices with smaller screens.

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Full keyboard when needed

Swiping two fingers up will open the full keyboard when more precision is need or when Minuum does not know the word you need.

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Customizable keyboard colors

Minuum Keyboard has a chameleon feature where the user can change the color of the keyboard. This allows for users to match their devices color, case or wallpaper.

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Easy access to emoji

Bonus panel lets you get easy access to your most frequently used emoji.

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Easy to use UI

Easy access to cursor movement keys, cut/copy/paste, share and more.

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Multiple Languages

Works in 13 languages.

Pro

Smartwatch support

With the small size of the Minuum keyboard it makes and ideal use case for smartwatches, due to their limited screen real estate.

Cons

Con

Very, very slow update pace

If there is any bugs, it will take very long time for the developer to issue another update to fix it.

Con

Big privacy concerns

The cloud support does who knows what with private data. The licence terms are quite clear with this: "You understand that through your use of the Software and the Service you consent to the collection and use as set forth herein of Speech Data and Licensing Data, including the transfer of both to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by Nuance and third party partners."

Also, this keyboard has a high GPS usage, for some unkown reason (the support wouldn't elaborate on this problem).

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Lag as a result of update issues

An abnormal amount Google Play reviewers are complaining of lag and memory problems that they never experienced with previous versions of Swype.

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Can't change tap sound

You cant change tap sound volume or enable vibration

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Dragon voice dictation

The Dragon voice dictation included in Swype is not as developed as Google's voice recognition software.

Con

Language switch is bad

Hard way to use pop up language menus and Sayles feature are not good enough.

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Can't type URLs

Sloppy typing only works on words in its dictionary. You can't enter words without a space between them, because it wants to "correct" the first word you have already accepted. This makes it impossible to type many URLs, unless you do it letter-by-letter, or go back and erase the spaces, which is tedious.